the oracle install is a real PITA.
Install oracle install client for, I think in your situation, 64 bit perl, and for your platform. Downloadable for free from oracle.com, after nagging you to create an account with user/pw.
Before doing anything with the perl install, verify that you can connect to an oracle db with instantclient.
I did something like this

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
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